Hot and Spicy Black-Eyed Peas

Hot and Spicy Black-Eyed Peas are a popular New Years dish. These black-eyed peas have lots of smokiness from bacon and a little liquid smoke plus some heat from a jalapeno and chili powder.

There’s a long tradition in the South for eating Black-Eyed Peas, collard greens, and cornbread on New Year’s Day. Tradition has it that doing so will bring prosperity, good luck, and fortune in the New Year.

These Hot and Spicy Black-Eyed Peas are simple to make using canned stewed tomatoes and canned black-eyed peas. You could use diced tomatoes instead of stewed, but I like the little bit of sweetness that stewed tomatoes have.

This recipe is so easy to make and nearly impossible to mess up.

First crisp up some chopped bacon in a large pan. Remove the bacon, but leave the bacon grease. It will lend awesome flavor to these Hot and Spicy Black-Eyed Peas.

Next onion, green bell pepper, and jalapeno are cooked in bacon grease until soft. Then add your stewed tomatoes (undrained) and black-eyed peas, along with all the seasonings. Let the mixture simmer for 15 to 20 minutes to blend all the flavors. Sprinkle the cooked bacon on top.

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8 thoughts on “Hot and Spicy Black-Eyed Peas”

Donna, maybe you should stick to something you know of which you speak and not make unkind remarks about something you don’t know. My husband and I just had this recipe for dinner and these peas will be my New Year’s standard. They were absolutely delicious! I couldn’t believe it when I saw my husband take his FIFTH helping! They were THAT good! Thank you Christin! Keep up the good work!

I have lived in the South my whole life and we do use canned beans esp now times. Thanks for the recipe. Will def try this this NY as my sons fav is blackeyes and heat. I will post back with positive I am sure. Have a great NY

Really, lived all of my 75 years in the south, can’t remember when we didn’t use canned goods. If fact I remember vividly taking our garden grown vegetables to our local cannery. We ate from those cans all winter long or should I say in til our garden started producing again in spring and early summer. Yes we also bought canned good from our local markets. Donna, you need to do some more research before making blind comments.

Donna, My Mama taught me, if you do not have any thing nice to say, “Do Not say anything at all ” AND ALWAYS KEEP AN OPEN MIND! It’s a dang recipe! Really!!! Try it! You might learn something new! and it just might surprise you.